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[inaudible] affair and it has been transformed into this great coming together by the military and the first responders, the great coming together of our uniformed personnel and a great [speaker not understood] of San Francisco. This amazing transformation in the last few years was due primarily to the vision and the dedication of three people, george and Charlotte Schultz and mike myers. Id like to pause to thank all three of them for this work. applause and in april of 1996, my last year as se...

The asia pacific region. Secondly, that we would maintain freedom of access throughout that region. In particular, we would maintain the sea lanes in that area, whatever the challenge might be. Even as we reduce our defense budget, therefore we must maintain and would maintain a powerful navy, and that that navy would be charged with maintaining the freedom of those sea lanes. We had, of course, to be concerned as to whether there would be a challenge for that. We observed that the rise and shin...

Vegetation management with prieflt ranch owners and private land owners as well as on state and cooperating with our federal agencies with the u. S. Forest service. So twofold program, vegetation management, we aggressively pursue that, but also from a Public Education stand point. What we find in these large scale incidents, the public is going to have to be selfsustaining and selfsupporting. They need to be prepared. We try to educate them in respect that we say well provide the offense, you p...

Program of exercise we conducted. The exercises were not only conducted on military scenarios, but we had an extensive set of exercises involved in humanitarian response. During the time i was secretary, we had a Disaster Response very similar to the one theyre doing here in San Francisco today. We bought naval forces from the United States, from russia and japan all to honolulu where we had simulated a tsunami disaster. And these three great nations brought their fleets to honolulu exercising h...

Domestically can be exported internationally and what we learn internationally we hope would be imported to our domestic programs. This morning as we listened to the medical panel and to vice admiral nathans comments, we heard about some of the skills and expertise in the medical arena that have been learned internationally and are being brought to bear through the exchange both yesterday and today to the local scene. Wondering if the panel has other examples that they could cite on where the be...

Communication but the iceu, which is a mobile communications platform, is ideal in events like this to push out to help. Any other questions . I have one. Back in 1992 when it was a big fire season and there was a lot of grass, they came to us and i was down at Camp Pendleton and they asked us it train marines on shovel work. What happened about 6 months later, they ended up sending two battalions to yellowstone. I havent heard any discussion at all, do you expect the military, the guard or the ...

Present. Present. [ National Anthem being played ] [ taps being played ] weve been watching the solemn ceremony taking place on Arlington National cemetery on this veterans day to celebrate the service of our men and women in the armed services, remembering those that have fallen. The service will be one hour, taking place there at the memorial amphitheater. Well go back for the president s live remarks in a few moments. But until that time we need to update you on the other big story were follo...

Somewhat simple but very effective solution was the use of defense connect on line, the dco chat room. Basically cal fire personnel, along with all the individual squadrons, all connected realtime able to communicate and coordinate both from the squadron and also on scene. Well, thank you. Lets go ahead and move into relationships. We had a significant discussion yesterday about relationships and again the highlighted and supervisor chius comments this morning. How do we ensure they are enduring...

Into the afternoon as of right now temperatures a little cooler the start of the saturday morning trading at the brunch or jog sorrows are right now 4751 degrees on the nappa up. named in the 50s, bay area but we do have pockets of isolated forays. tonight average real see cloud cover bald continue assuming the bay area we saw the sea breeze when to contend with relating our temperatures and also bringing a little more humanity to the bay area so as not as dry as a whistle past couple this end t...

Our special report how the nsa Surveillance Program has changed over the year and how much your privacy remains at risk. There is a measure of good news tonight out of california. Five of the wildfires are now contained. But for thousands of firefighters, the battle is far from over. There are still several fires raging like in camp penl tonl where staff pendleton. Request 20,000 acres have been steroid there. Many communities are in harms way tonight. A plan was charged with arson in san diego ...